docker load - unexpected EOF

Question

The deployment process of some test environment requires using docker save , sending the file over, then using docker load to materialize the docker image on the other end.

Today this started happening for some reason:

Error response from daemon: Error processing tar file(exit status 1): unexpected EOF

Answer 1

It turned out that the image upload was not successful, and the file was cut short, so it literally had an unexpected EOF . (duh)

Using md5sum or ls to compare the files would have helped me spot this error much sooner.

Shoutout tothis google result which stated the same.